Risk Driven Testing

IBM® Rational® Quality Manager is a collaborative, Web-based, quality management tool for comprehensive test planning and test asset management throughout the software lifecycle. It is built on the Jazz™ platform and is designed to be used by test teams of all sizes. It supports a variety of user roles, such as test manager, test architect, test lead, tester, and lab manager, as well as roles outside of the test organization. This article explains how to set up a new project in Rational Quality Manager and reviews several of the basic things that you can do with it in your projects.Strongback Consulting helps organizations get started automated their test environment and improving the quality of the quality management process.

Building apps in the App Cloud is so fast and easy it can almost feel magical at times. But there is no magic in producing good quality apps and solutions. Join us as we give specific suggestions and guidance to help you with quality control in your Salesforce implementation, including typical Apex code pitfalls, setting up a review process, and creating a development standards guide.

The document discusses the concept of software quality. It defines quality as characteristics or attributes that make something what it is. For software, quality includes design quality and conformance quality. While quality is difficult to explicitly define, it generally means meeting user goals and specifications. The document outlines different views of quality and discusses quality dimensions such as performance, reliability and maintainability. It also discusses balancing quality with cost and risk considerations.

Agile testing focuses on delivering value to customers through frequent testing and feedback. It differs from the traditional waterfall model which separates development and testing. The document discusses four main agile testing methodologies: behavior driven development, acceptance test driven development, exploratory testing, and session based testing. It also covers the agile testing quadrants framework and how companies can implement best practices for agile testing.

QA plays an important role in delivering high quality software by thoroughly testing for errors and issues and providing constructive feedback to developers. Some key responsibilities of QA include properly understanding requirements, creating comprehensive test plans and test cases, executing different types of testing such as positive and negative testing, carefully analyzing results and logging any issues found along with the steps to reproduce them. QA should pursue finding and resolving errors, not blame on individuals. Both QA and developers must work together effectively through clear communication and collaboration.

Agile practices have done a magnificent job of speeding up the software development process. Unfortunately, simply applying agile practices to testing isn't enough to keep testers at the same pace. Test automation is necessary to support agile delivery. Max Saperstone explores popular test automation frameworks and shares the benefits of applying these frameworks, their implementation strategies, and best usage practices. Focusing on the pros and cons of each framework, Max discusses data-driven, keyword-driven, and action-driven approaches. Find out which framework and automation strategy are most beneficial for specific situations. Although this presentation is tool agnostic, Max demonstrates automation with examples from current tooling options. If you are new to test automation or trying to optimize your current automation strategy, this session is for you.

EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2010 presentation on Working Ourselves out of a Job: A Passion For Improvement by Isabel Evans. See more at: http://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/

This presentation discusses NFU Mutual's outsourcing project and partnership with a vendor for additional testing. It covers their selection process, including developing criteria and running proofs of concept. It also discusses how they have lived the relationship, including governance, service level agreements, integrating teams, and moving work offshore. Metrics and cultural integration are important factors for a successful partnership. Overall, the key to success is open communication, agreed metrics, and addressing potential issues upfront.

- The document discusses quality assurance in the software development lifecycle, including key concepts, practices, and challenges. - It defines quality assurance, software development lifecycle phases, and differences between verification and validation. Common testing types like unit, integration, and non-functional testing are also covered. - The document then describes quality assurance practices used in industry, such as creating QA plans, requirements reviews, test case development, and validation activities at different stages. Finally, challenges of quality assurance are discussed around testing focus, cost of fixes, schedules, and career opportunities.

Nisha Varghese is a senior QA analyst and test lead with 9 years of experience in healthcare, travel, and retail domains. She has worked on various projects for Carefirst BCBS including their private exchange platform and reports for product setup changes. Her responsibilities include requirements analysis, test planning, task allocation, test oversight, reporting, and client management. She is proficient in testing methodologies, tools like ALM, and platforms like SharePoint, Lotus Notes, and mobile.

Presentation by Phil Lew at StarWest 2013. When implementing software quality metrics, we need to first understand the purpose of the metrics and who will be using them. Will the metric be used to measure people or the process, to illustrate the level of quality in software products, or to drive toward a specific objective? QA managers typically want to deliver productivity metrics to management but management may want to see metrics that describe customer or user satisfaction. Philip Lew believes that software quality metrics without actionable objectives toward increasing customer satisfaction are a waste of time. Learn how to connect each metric with potential actions based on evaluating the metric. Metrics for the sake of information may be helpful but often just end up in spreadsheets of interest to no one. Take home methods to identify metrics that support actionable objectives. Once the metrics and their objectives have been established, learn how to define and use metrics for real improvement.

QA Interview Questions With Answers from software testing experts. Frequently asked questions in Quality Assurance (QA) interview for freshers and experienced professionals.

This document discusses the importance of test metrics in software testing. It provides examples of key metrics like productivity, defect count, and skills assessment. Productivity metrics like test cases designed/executed per day can demonstrate team capabilities. Defect data around count, age, and severity provides critical project health information. Skills can be measured on an individual, team, and readiness level against required skills to identify training needs. Representing and tracking the right metrics ensures project quality and on-time delivery.

The document discusses integrating Agile practices into a company's software development lifecycle (SDLC). It outlines key Agile concepts like product backlogs, sprints, and daily standups. It provides examples of how sprints can align with the SDLC and what deliverables each sprint produces. Critical success factors and potential adoption risks are also covered.

The document discusses software quality assurance (SQA) and defines key terms related to quality. It describes SQA as encompassing quality management, software engineering processes, formal reviews, testing strategies, documentation control, and compliance with standards. Specific SQA activities mentioned include developing an SQA plan, participating in process development, auditing work products, and ensuring deviations are addressed. The document also discusses software reviews, inspections, reliability, and the reliability specification process.

Software quality assurance (SQA) involves planning and implementing activities throughout development to ensure quality. SQA includes standards, reviews, testing, defect tracking, and risk management. Statistical SQA categorizes defects and identifies their root causes to improve processes. Reviews are important for uncovering errors and should involve preparation, focus on the work product, and result in accepting or rejecting the product. Metrics collected from reviews indicate their effectiveness at defect detection and removal.

Many projects implicitly use some kind of risk-based approach for prioritizing testing activities. However, critical testing decisions should be based on a product risk assessment process using key business drivers as its foundation. For agile projects, this assessment should be both thorough and lightweight. Erik van Veenendaal discusses PRISMA (PRoduct RISk MAnagement), a highly practical method for performing systematic product risk assessments. Learn how to employ PRISMA techniques in agile projects using Risk Poker. Carry out risk identification and analysis, see how to use the outcome to select the best test approach, and learn how to transform the result into an agile one-page sprint test plan. Erik shares practical experiences and results achieved by employing product risk assessments. Learn how to optimize your test effort by including product risk assessment in your agile testing practices.

- Small organizations have limited resources, making traditional SPI approaches difficult. This paper proposes a minimalist approach of making small, incremental changes that collectively achieve CMMI practices. - The approach involves identifying business problems and implementing small actions to solve them, measuring effects, and iterating. This has advantages of immediate results and accelerated adoption. - Three ways small organizations implement CMMI are through knowledge sharing with others, purchasing pre-packaged solutions, or modifying the learning curve with minimal changes. The paper focuses on the third approach in detail. - A case example demonstrates implementing a series of small process changes over time to address identified project issues in a controlled manner. This minimalist approach spreads costs and shows quick benefits

This document provides a list of over 80 references used in the field of software engineering. The references cover topics such as agile development, lean principles, software quality, project management, process improvement frameworks like CMMI and MPS.BR, and software engineering best practices. The references are from books, papers, and websites published between 1970-2012.

A big part of process improvement is managing the transition. Many books have been written about how to do this, yet there is a paucity of strategies that can be tied to real life variables. In this Appendix to our book (in translation from Spanish) we explore such strategies and suggest a parsimonious approach whenever possible.

Traditional software engineering deals with two phases of a product lifecycle: Development and Maintenance. In this short paper we propose to take a different approach and look at the product’s lifecycle using an analogy with the human lifecycle. We use this analogy to define roles that we call ‘research’, ‘engineering’, and ‘support’ to accommodate all the required activities that will keep a product useful for the longest period possible, while at the same time giving rapid response to customer needs.

Este documento presenta un taller de un día sobre la implementación de tableros de desempeño para la motivación, el control y el diagnóstico de proyectos. El taller cubrirá cómo establecer objetivos medibles y sistemas de medición, diseñar indicadores clave de desempeño, y construir tableros de control para la toma de decisiones estratégicas y tácticas. El instructor, Jorge Boria, tiene más de 40 años de experiencia en ingeniería de software y procesos de mejora, y enseñará a los participantes cómo aplicar

This is the second chapter of the authors' own translation of the award winning book The Story of Tahini-Tahini: Process Improvement and Agile Methods with the MPS Model. Originally published in Portuguese and already in Spanish. This Chapter deals with Process Improvement and how to make it work.

La última entrega de mi serie sobre el CMMI SVC. Como en la anterior, me enfoco en una de las dos áreas de gestión de trabajo que son exclusivas del modelo SVC, en este caso continuidad de servicios (SCON)

1) Complex software is everywhere and software development is difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. 2) There are often large gaps in software development processes which creates risks like inconsistent processes, lack of productivity reporting, and unpredictable development. 3) Visual Studio 2012 aims to address issues in software development through features like integrated testing tools, storyboarding for early feedback, load testing, and monitoring of applications in production.

The document discusses challenges with traditional waterfall software development approaches and how agile development methods address some of these challenges. It notes that waterfall projects often fail to meet schedules, budgets and user needs due to changing requirements. Agile methods use iterative development, prioritize working software over documentation, and emphasize collaboration between developers and customers.

This document discusses project planning, feasibility studies, and various factors to consider for IT projects. It covers guidelines for project plans, internal and external factors, components of a project plan, the project development lifecycle including planning, analysis, design, implementation, and support phases. It also discusses assessing the feasibility of projects, including tests of operational, technical, schedule, and economic feasibility. Methods for evaluating feasibility include feasibility matrices and analyses of benefits, costs, payback periods, and net present values. Managing stakeholder expectations is also addressed.

Software testing involves verifying that software meets requirements and works as intended. There are various testing types including unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing. Testing methodologies include black box testing without viewing code and white box testing using internal knowledge. The goal is to find bugs early and ensure software reliability.

Learn how to establish a greater sense of confidence in your release cycle, along with the practices and processes to create a high-performing engineering culture within your team.

Learn why Quality Assurance is important for your business and what are different types of testing services.

The document discusses testing and distribution of mobile apps. It provides an overview of: 1) A mobile maturity model that organizations can use to assess their mobile strategy and capabilities across different areas including testing. 2) The importance of testing throughout the app development lifecycle from definition to development to acceptance. It describes various testing types like unit, integration, and usability testing. 3) How automated testing can help with frequent verification but still requires manual testing. It provides examples of unit and functional automated tests. 4) The different phases of testing in a project including definition to set testing requirements, development where testing is integrated, and acceptance testing by the customer.

Software Testing adds organizational value in quantitative and qualitative ways. Successful organizations recognize the importance of quality. Establishing a quality-oriented mindset is the responsibility of business leadership.

This is a presentation that was given to the Project Management Institute of Metrolina. The goal is exposure to the fundamental ideas of Lean/Agile/Scrum software development.

This presentation tells in brief the solutions provided by Impetus\'s Testing Center of Excellence "qLabs". Please send in your comments at qLabs@impetus.co.in http://www.impetus.com/qLabs

This document contains the resume of Puneet Pall, who has 7 years of experience in quality assurance and testing roles. He has led offshore test teams and has experience in client communication, test planning, execution, defect management, and reporting. His technical skills include testing tools like ALM v11 and Bugzilla, and programming languages like VBScript. He has expertise in functional, regression, integration, and database testing. He also has experience working as a test lead on projects in various domains like chemicals, petroleum, insurance, and payments.

The document provides an overview of software testing, including common software problems, objectives and principles of testing, quality assurance vs quality control, software development life cycles, project management, and risk management. It discusses what testing is, why it's necessary, who does it, objectives of testing, types of problems found, quality principles, life cycles like waterfall and V-model, project planning, scheduling, staffing, and identifying, analyzing and managing risks.